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by falsedan 8y ago
A modest proposal, but you should stress your satire more strongly to avoid swift downvoting.
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by falsedan 8y ago
How about standardised bands for competency? E.g. a software engineer level 3 step 2 has mentored three people, been the tech lead/written the OKRs for a 6-month project, and has X years of experience on other projects (in the earlier
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by falsedan 8y ago
At a startup, where the title for your position can be more or less teneously attached to the actual role (e.g. CTO at a two-person startup is more in line with a software engineer at a big company).
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by falsedan 8y ago
Great points. Regarding point 2: > 2. The reviewer concedes that there can be equally valid approaches to a given problem or taste wrt. aesthetics. They do not try to gratuitously force their style upon the reviewee. The reciprocal must
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by falsedan 8y ago
Code review doesn’t catch bugs. Sure, sometimes an experienced dev can spot a bounds error or race condition, but CRS are for knowledge sharing and style adherence.
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by falsedan 8y ago
This is from 2017, would like to see any update on how it's worked out for them
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by falsedan 8y ago
I stopped reading at the “history of keys” introduction. Press releases aren’t essays, you don’t need to bury the lede.
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by falsedan 8y ago
That sounds gross/like a health and safety violation, dweekly
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by falsedan 8y ago
I’ve been baffled by how brittle static site generator tools are, and how forcefully they push their workflow/concepts onto the user. I gave up on Jekyll when I tried to hook it up to hit & push each published site as a branch pate
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by falsedan 8y ago
The “native” inhabitants of Scotland spoke Brythonic and Pictish (both Celtish languages); since then, the Gaels (who were also Celts), Romans, Norse, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans arrived from various directions and displaced them utterly. Sco
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by falsedan 8y ago
I expect they’re code switching to match your expected communication preferences based on the normal class/environmental signals.
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by falsedan 8y ago
I don’t understand your distinction, mutual intelligibility does not discount a tongue from being a language, and discounting dialects from the accent <-> language continuum seems overly logocentric. I agree that dialects like Scouse,
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by falsedan 8y ago
One doesn’t have to go far in Embra to hear about the dreich days nor the harr coming off the firth, and it’s the least Scottish city in the country. The vocab is distinct from English, and that puts it beyond an accent to a full dialect an
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by falsedan 8y ago
Can’t believe this article missed the most delightful factoid regarding wombats’ cubic poo.
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by falsedan 8y ago
I feel like my workflow address that exactly: by making a separate branch per reviewable change from the base of the problem branch.
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by falsedan 8y ago
I think the tl;dr is “stacked diffs require running different commands than git pull --rebase” The author complains about wasting time branching and merging, but other examples at the end still have the same number of operations and still h
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by falsedan 8y ago
You can start bisecting and then skip every commit on a feature branch that was merged in. Painful to script and I wish bisect had a --first-parent flag to do it for me
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by falsedan 8y ago
I see karma as a bank for paying for incredibly trashy comments: for every upvote I vow to write at least one thoughtless hot take and defend it to the death
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by falsedan 8y ago
MikroTik has a similarly-priced weird alternative in the 953GS-5HnT-RP: SIM slots, 3 Gigabit ports, 2 SFP cages, 3x3 MIMO. No PoE out tho. Looking at one of these for an external garage where the existing conduit from the house has the elec
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by falsedan 8y ago
Supporting clients with 2.4-only devices without distributing two sets of credentials & avoiding a 5Ghz use accidentally picking the wrong creds.
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by falsedan 8y ago
This is mostly to make it easier to understand why the hell someone did something in a particular way and if it’s safe to change it to a more contemporary style years later. The reviewer should trust the author and the business requirements
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by falsedan 8y ago
In my experience, code reviews 1. Check that the code is addressing the problem at hand and is fulfilling a business need (mostly making sure it’s linked to a reasonably-written ticket) 2. Align style and make code look consistent across re
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by falsedan 8y ago
You publish the code review at 5pm on day 1, it gets reviewed and a question added at 5pm (local time) on day 2, you see it, answer the question/make a change and publish at 5pm day 2, it gets a ship it on day 3 (local time), and then
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by falsedan 8y ago
I think putting opinions in code review comments is fine, as long as you’re clearly indicating it as an opinion. The worst is when a reviewer tries to justify their opinionated comment with some vague appeal to style or readability instead
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by falsedan 8y ago
The only core library code I needed to look at was namedtuple, which is pretty incomprehensible even with context.
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by falsedan 8y ago
If an employee is unproductive because they are unmotivated, they do have the self-empowerment to say “this project isn’t motivating for me, let’s reassign me/plan for a more motivating project next/go over what the stakeholders n
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by falsedan 8y ago
This is just cleaning the facades! Edinburgh prohibits this kind of cosmetic work in ordr to keep the historical character of buildings (tho sandstone doesn't go as black as limestone).
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by falsedan 8y ago
> Eg the word "sauce", which consists of two identical consonants and a single vowel. Why not choose å for that vowel? Sås makes a lot of sense 'sauce' has three consonants in my accent and no 'a' sound; i
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by falsedan 8y ago
The python interpreter can choose not to call it. I've had to register essential cleanup with `atexit` instead.
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by falsedan 8y ago
> if I’m learning something new If I'm reading something to learn something new, I want to end up learning about it by the end of it or I hit the limit of time I have to spend on learning about it.

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